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Name:
Plesiosaur (Ekasmosaurus) Tooth
Age: Cretaceous
Formation: Mosasaur Beds
Location: Morocco
Size: Tooth is 2.5 inches long
Here is a wonderful tooth from a Plesiosaur. This Elasmosaurus tooth is from the Cretaceous deposits of Morocco. Plesiosaurs were large, vicious marine reptiles. They had extremely long necks and fairly lengthy tails and swam by means of legs and feet that had developed into oarlike paddles. This tooth is wonderfully 3-dimensional and beautifully preserved. The corrugated, multi-colored enamel is excellent, and the tip exhibits no wear, which is quite unusual. This dagger-shaped tooth still has a portion of the root intact. The fossil has superb color and contrasts well with the sandstone matrix. The tooth is nicely positioned on the block of sandstone - NATURAL, NOT COMPOSITED on the plate. This is a great example of a Plesiosaur tooth from the Cretaceous seas. (The enamel is practically flawless - the discoloration on thecenter of the tooth is just on the photo, not on the tooth itself.)
A Certificate of Authenticity from EXTINCTIONS is included with this specimen.
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